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19-letter words containing ou

  • count oneself lucky — If you say that someone can count themselves lucky, you mean that the situation they are in or the thing that has happened to them is better than it might have been or than they might have expected.
  • counter reformation — the movement within the Roman Catholic Church that followed the Protestant Reformation of the 16th century.
  • counter-advertising — the act or practice of calling public attention to one's product, service, need, etc., especially by paid announcements in newspapers and magazines, over radio or television, on billboards, etc.: to get more customers by advertising.
  • counter-programming — to schedule (a broadcast on radio or television) to compete with one on another station.
  • counter-proposition — a proposition made in place of or in opposition to a preceding one.
  • counter-reformation — the reform movement of the Roman Catholic Church in the 16th and early 17th centuries considered as a reaction to the Protestant Reformation
  • counterconditioning — the conditioning of a response that is incompatible with some previously learned response; for example, in psychotherapy an anxious person might be taught relaxation, which is incompatible with anxiety
  • counterdemonstrator — Someone who demonstrates in opposition to another demonstration that is happening nearby at the same time.
  • counterinsurgencies — Plural form of counterinsurgency.
  • counterintelligence — Counterintelligence consists of actions that a country takes in order to find out whether another country is spying on it and to prevent it from doing so.
  • counterpoint-rhythm — Music. the art of combining melodies.
  • counterpoise bridge — another name for bascule bridge
  • counterproductively — In a counterproductive way.
  • countersurveillance — The art of evading surveillance.
  • countertransference — in psychotherapy, transference in which the psychoanalyst or other psychotherapist substitutes the client for the original object of his or her own repressed impulses
  • countervailing duty — an extra import duty imposed by a country on certain imports, esp to prevent dumping or to counteract subsidies in the exporting country
  • country and western — Country and western is the same as country music.
  • country-and-western — country music.
  • county commissioner — a member of an elected governing board in the counties of certain states of the U.S.
  • course requirements — the qualifications that are required for acceptance onto a degree course
  • court correspondent — (in Britain) a journalist who covers stories about the royal family
  • court of st james's — the official name of the royal court of Britain
  • creative accounting — Creative accounting is when companies present or organize their accounts in such a way that they gain money for themselves or give a false impression of their profits.
  • deaf without speech — (usually of a prelingually deaf person) able to utter sounds but not speak
  • directional coupler — (communications)   (tap) A passive device used in cable systems to divide and combine radio frequency signals. A directional coupler has at least three ports: line in, line out, and the tap. The signal passes between line in and line out ports with loss referred to as the insertion loss. A small portion of the signal power applied to the line in port passes to the tap port. A signal applied to the tap port is passed to the line in port less the tap attenuation value. The tap signals are isolated from the line out port to prevent reflections. A signal applied to the line out port passes to the line in port and is isolated from the tap port. Some devices provide more than one tap output line (multi-taps).
  • disadvantageousness — The state or quality of being disadvantageous.
  • disjunctive pronoun — an inflection of pronouns in some languages that is used alone or after a preposition, such as moi in French
  • double counterpoint — invertible counterpoint using two transposable voices.
  • double yellow lines — parallel yellow lines painted down the centre of a roadway to indicate that overtaking is not permitted in either direction
  • double-density disk — a disk with more than the normal capacity for storage
  • double-helical gear — herringbone gear.
  • eat one's heart out — Anatomy. a hollow, pumplike organ of blood circulation, composed mainly of rhythmically contractile smooth muscle, located in the chest between the lungs and slightly to the left and consisting of four chambers: a right atrium that receives blood returning from the body via the superior and inferior vena cavae, a right ventricle that pumps the blood through the pulmonary artery to the lungs for oxygenation, a left atrium that receives the oxygenated blood via the pulmonary veins and passes it through the mitral valve, and a left ventricle that pumps the oxygenated blood, via the aorta, throughout the body.
  • equatorial mounting — an astronomical telescope mounting that allows motion of the telescope about two mutually perpendicular axes, one of which is parallel to the earth's axis
  • factitious disorder — any of various syndromes, as Münchausen syndrome, characterized by physical or psychological symptoms intentionally produced by a person and under voluntary control.
  • false consciousness — a Marxist theory that people are unable to see things, especially exploitation, oppression, and social relations, as they really are; the hypothesized inability of the human mind to develop a sophisticated awareness of how it is developed and shaped by circumstances.
  • father of the house — (in Britain) the longest-serving member of the House of Commons
  • feel strongly about — to have decided opinions concerning
  • fellow countrywoman — a fellow countrywoman is a female citizen of the same state as the person speaking, writing, or being referred to
  • first-in, first-out — an inventory plan that assumes that items purchased first will be sold first and that by valuing inventory items at the price of the most recent purchases, inventory values will be comparable to any rise in prices. Abbreviation: FIFO . Compare last-in, first-out.
  • flannelmouth sucker — a sucker, Catostomus latipinnis, of the Colorado River and its tributaries.
  • floating foundation — a foundation used in yielding soil, having for its footing a raft tending to displace a weight greater than that of the building.
  • for crying out loud — exasperation
  • forensic accountant — an accountant who specializes in applying accountancy skills to the purposes of the law
  • foundation subjects — the subjects studied as part of the National Curriculum, including the compulsory core subjects
  • four colour theorem — four colour map theorem
  • four eyes principle — the requirement that a business transaction be approved by at least two individuals
  • four-o'clock family — the plant family Nyctaginaceae, characterized by chiefly tropical herbaceous plants and shrubs having colored, petallike bracts beneath petalless flowers and winged or grooved dry fruit, and including the bougainvillea and four-o'clock.
  • friend of the court — amicus curiae.
  • genetic counselling — the provision of advice for couples with a history of inherited disorders who wish to have children, including the likelihood of having affected children and the course and management of the disorder, etc
  • give your eye teeth — If you say that you would give your eye teeth for something, you mean that you want it very much and you would do anything to get it.
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